Missoula to lose Forest Service regional office in sweeping reorganization. The agency’s national headquarters is also moving — from D.C. to Salt Lake City.
After public outcry quashed a proposed expansion of the historic lodge in the Swan Valley, the Forest Service approved a permit for the new owners, who will “conduct the business in the same scope, intensity, size, scale, and footprint of the existing permit.”
The Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team has played a crucial role in bringing Yellowstone grizzlies back from the brink. Now, the Trump administration is “functionally destroying the organization.”
For wolf protection advocates, it’s been a wildly successful 30 years since wolves were reintroduced to the Northern Rockies. But the backlash toward the apex predator is only growing more fierce.
A Utah investor with ties to Montana has expressed interest in purchasing the historic Holland Lake Lodge in the Swan Valley. But before he can buy it he has to sell himself.
On the Flathead Reservation — and on Indian reservations across the West — state-owned trust lands generate profits while infringing on tribal sovereignty.
